Billboard Hot 100: 09/18/2021

[iamsorare]

Sept 7, 2021 7:10:38 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Drake has top 5 on Spotify, W2S is #1 with 2.24M. Surprised it didn't increase on a Monday.

he will continue to drop..and before some of his fans quote you that he didn't increase cause of the labor day,justin and lil nas singles -for example- increased on streams today..so no excuses

[purp child]

Top 21 still CLB on Apple Music for the fifth day
Guess he'll "continue to drop" lol

[fridayteenage]

day 4 US:
Sour 11th highest song 1.41 mil
CLB 11th highest song 1.13 mil

Sour top songs 4.65, 2.51, 2.35, 2.23 mil
CLB top songs 2.24, 2.12, 1.95, 1.78 mil

[thegreatdivine]

Sept 7, 2021 7:16:54 GMT -5 iamsorare said:

Sept 7, 2021 7:10:38 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Drake has top 5 on Spotify, W2S is #1 with 2.24M. Surprised it didn't increase on a Monday.

he will continue to drop..and before some of his fans quote you that he didn't increase cause of the labor day,justin and lil nas singles -for example- increased on streams today..so no excuses

Yes, compare singles that have been out for weeks and have gained considerably on radio to tracks off an album that's been out for 5 days.

[iamsorare]

Sept 7, 2021 7:36:31 GMT -5 purp child said:

Top 21 still CLB on Apple Music for the fifth day
Guess he'll "continue to drop" lol

Spotify is as important as apple music (if not more) on the charts but yeah at least you have apple music to be proud of (a platform with 90% of the charting songs being rap so it wasn't difficult for drake to be on top)...

[iamsorare]

Sept 7, 2021 8:04:27 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Sept 7, 2021 7:16:54 GMT -5 iamsorare said:

he will continue to drop..and before some of his fans quote you that he didn't increase cause of the labor day,justin and lil nas singles -for example- increased on streams today..so no excuses

Yes, compare singles that have been out for weeks and have gained considerably on radio to a tracks off an album that's been out for less than 4 days.

new releases always having bigger increase on Monday -the start of the week-..so your comment about the older singles doesn't make sense at all.. drake should have an increase today but instead of that, he declined more!

[thegreatdivine]

SPOTIFY GLOBAL
Scorpion
1st day — 132.4M
2nd day — 103.3M (-22%)
3rd day — 74.5M (-28%)
4th day — 70.8M (-5%)

Certified Lover Boy
1st day — 153.4M
2nd day — 89.9M (-41.4%)
3rd day — 60.6M (-32.6%)
4th day — 55.1M (-9.1%)

Donda
1st day — 95M
2nd day — 104M (+9%)
3rd day — 72.1M (-33%)
4th day — 54.8M (-23%)

[Enigma.]

Normally, Monday is the second or third biggest day for new albums, just because people go to work and commute and go to gym etc and try new music.

[thegreatdivine]

Sept 7, 2021 8:08:35 GMT -5 iamsorare said:

Sept 7, 2021 8:04:27 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Yes, compare singles that have been out for weeks and have gained considerably on radio to a tracks off an album that's been out for less than 4 days.

new releases always having bigger increase on Monday -the start of the week-..so your comment about the older singles don't make sense at all

Usually, older songs have had the chance to become known by the GP, especially if they've gone viral on TikTok or they've gained significantly on radio and hence, they're usually more stable with minimal losses and bigger gains, compared to newer songs throughout the week. I may be wrong but I imagine it takes a little longer than 4 days for new albums to start gaining streams on Spotify.

Scorpion had 2 massive hits prior to it's release and another hit following it's release but it still lost streams on the Monday of it's first tracking week so I don't know how you expected CLB to magically gain streams on a Monday that also happened to be Labor Day, which is a federal holiday.

[Choco]

One can have the entire top 21 and still be dropping lol. He started at record breaking day 1 numbers, he's got plenty of room to fall before the old songs can catch up again.

[Gary]

STREAMING
It's Drake's Day, So What's With All the Phony 'Certified Lover Boy' Albums on Spotify?
By Chris Eggertsen
9/3/2021
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www.billboard.com/articles/business/streaming/9624967/drake-certified-lover-boy-fake-albums-spotify/

"Alexa, play 'Certified Lover Boy' by Drake." "No, not that one."
Drake’s Certified Lover Boy is one of the most anticipated albums of the year -- but if you’re using a smart speaker to listen to the long-awaited album on Spotify, you may have trouble hearing it.

Since Certified Lover Boy’s release just last midnight EST, users of Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant and Apple’s Siri have been reporting problems getting their smart speakers to play the Toronto rapper’s long-awaited album on the streaming giant. When prompted, many note that music by same- or similarly-named albums or artists – including Certified Lover Boy Instrumentals by BenKeys Music and Certified Lover Boy by Calvin Drake – begin playing instead. The issue appears to be limited to smart assistants that have Spotify set as their default music player and cannot be replicated on Apple Music, Amazon Music and Google’s YouTube Music through those same devices.


Notably, the problem extends to text searches on the Spotify app itself. A text search for “Certified Lover Boy Drake” on Spotify turns up an album entitled Drake by the artist Certified Lover Boy as the top result. When searching only for “Certified Lover Boy,” a Spotify-curated playlist of the entire album – but not the album itself – appears.

Spotify did not immediately respond to Billboard’s request for comment. A source says Spotify is working with the music industry to address the issue, which is common among albums from major artists.

Each DSP separately routes which albums, songs and playlists are surfaced when voice requests are made through Amazon’s Alexa. When reached for comment, Apple denied the problem was an issue with their hardware. Google did not respond to Billboard’s request for comment by press time.


A quick text search of albums entitled “Certified Lover Boy” on Spotify turns up dozens of results, many of which appear to have been added to Spotify in the year since the album title was first revealed in August 2020, according to available statistics on the music data service Chartmetric. The BenKeys Music Certified Lover Boy Instrumentals album, to cite one example, appears to have been active on the platform since May of this year.

The gaming of Spotify’s algorithm by unscrupulous users is nothing new. In November 2019, hip-hop label Sosa Entertainment and its founder, Jake Noch, sued Spotify for failing to pay royalties on over 550 million of streams on Sosa Entertainment’s music. Spotify countersued in May 2020, claiming Noch had directed a bot farmer to create millions of fake accounts and to change the names of songs in Sosa Entertainment’s catalog to resemble those of hits like XXXTentacion’s "SAD!" and DJ Snake’s "Taki Taki” in order to generate hundreds of millions of fraudulent streams. According to the lawsuit, one of Noch’s albums jumped from zero to more than 400,000 streams in mere days, 99% of which came from Spotify’s ad-supported free tier and from account registered to male users in the U.S., a pattern that was found for other works as well.

That and this latest incident open questions about the ease with which Spotify users can manipulate the DSP’s system in order to siphon streams and associated royalties away from legitimate artists.

[purp child]

Sept 7, 2021 8:07:11 GMT -5 iamsorare said:

Sept 7, 2021 7:36:31 GMT -5 purp child said:

Top 21 still CLB on Apple Music for the fifth day
Guess he'll "continue to drop" lol

Spotify is as important as apple music (if not more) on the charts but yeah at least you have apple music to be proud of (a platform with 90% of the charting songs being rap so it wasn't difficult for drake to be on top)...

Almost like Drake built Apple Music from the ground up when VIEWS was a streaming exclusive on it for 1 week and went on to sell 1 million first weeks to begin the real streaming era

[dremolus - solarpunk]

US Spotify - 09/06/21

Drake - Certified Lover Boy
1(=) Way 2 Sexy 2,241,234 (-127,346)
2(=) Girls Want Girls 2,117,479 (-235,565)
3(=) Fair Trade 1,954,895 (-259,178)
4(=) Knife Talk 1,778,900 (-180,350)
5(=) Champagne Poetry 1,619,327 (-215,913)
7(-1) TSU 1,485,380 (-256,492)
10(-2) No Friends In The Industry 1,302,940 (-209,605)
11(-2) Papi's Home 1,221,953 (-258,162)
12(-2) In the Bible 1,199,675 (-262,462)
13(-2) N 2 Deep 1,164,905 (-228,901)
14(-2) Love All 1,128,967 (-259,577)
16(-1) Pipe Down 993,191 (-194,941)
18(-2) 7am On Bridle Path 948,713 (-216,071)
21(-4) IMY2 932,446 (-183,621)
24(-6) Race My Mind 869,269 (-175,080)
26(-6) You Only Live Twice 808,983 (-180,583)
28(-5) Yebba’s Heartbreak 775,595 (-170,406)
29(-2) Fountains 727,100 (-153,160)
30(-2) Get Along Better 707,563 (-148,075)
37(-6) Fucking Fans 625,235 (-126,721)
40(-7) The Remorse 574,922 (-136,909)
Total Streams: 25,178,672

Kanye West - DONDA
9(+4) Hurricane 1,337,132 (-24,135)
19(+2) Off the Grid 944,353 (-38,525)
22(+2) Moon 921,618 (-13,211)
31(+1) Jail 706,687 (-44,375)
36(-2) Praise God 654,280 (-27,539)
46(-3) Believe What I Say 507,088 (-31,243)
52(-1) Jonah 456,427,167 440 (-29,273)
55(-3) Pure Souls 410,155 (-20,051)
56(-3) Heaven and Hell 407,439 (-19,910)
59(-5) Remote Control 396,144 (-23,954)
60(-5) Ok Ok 391,541 (-27,362)
69(-8) No Child Left Behind 360,407 (-19,719)
70(-8) Junya 355,833 (-23,813)
73(-9) 24 352,226 (-25,122)
88(-8) Jail pt 2 314,328 (-18,793)
89(-11) God Breathed 313,191 (-26,095)
98(-9) New Again 298,000 (-16,401)
99(-12) Keep My Spirit Alive 298,000 (-17,728)
Total Streams: 10,479,813

6(+1) The Kid LAROI - STAY 1,596,686 (+43,050)
8(+6) Lil Nas X - INDUSTRY BABY 1,365,994 (+42,554)
15(+4) Glass Animals - Heat Waves 1,099,505 (+60,339)
17(+5) Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u 990,343 (+42,163)
20(+6) Baby Keem - family ties 936,482 (+45,436)
23(+2) Doja Cat - Need to Know 900,771 (-16,921)
25(+4) Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever 860,544 (+36,698)
27(+3) Doja Cat - Kiss Me More 802,936 (+10,240)
32(+6) Doja Cat - Woman 677,893 (+48,990)
33(+2) Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits 673,713 (+14,008)
34(+2) Lil Nas X - MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) 660,211 (+6,735)
35(+2) Sleepy Hallow - 2055 658,883 (+11,849)
38(+1) Dua Lipa - Levitating 601,759 (+15,252)
39(+3) Olivia Rodrigo - traitor 594,303 (+38,133)
41(=) Måneskin - Beggin' 571,606 (+11,355)
42(-2) Farruko - Pepas 563,644 (-18,992)
43(+2) Walker Hayes - Fancy Like 532,628 (+19,269)
44(=) Doja Cat - Get Into It (Yuh) 529,502 (+14,446)
45(+2) Olivia Rodrigo - deja vu 509,018 (+22,446)
47(+1) Steve Lacy - Dark Red 501,619 (+18,730)
50(=) Doja Cat - Ain't Shit 477,901 (+10,140)
51(+5) THE ANXIETY, WILLOW, Tyler Cole - Meet Me At Our Spot 465,641 (+48,280)
53(+5) Surf Curse - Freaks 426,573 (+16,537)
57(+2) The Weeknd - Take My Breath 407,031 (+4,372)
58(+5) Tai Verdes - A-O-K 396,774 (+18,097)
62(+4) Eslabon Armado, DannyLux - Jugaste y Sufrí 387,562 (+13,556)
64(-4) CORPSE, Night Lovell - HOT DEMON B!TCHES NEAR U ! ! ! 378,916 (-22,398)
65(+4) Meek Mill - Sharing Locations 373,677 (+7,118)
66(-1) Lizzo - Rumors 373,372 (-2,610)
67(+4) The Weeknd - Save Your Tears Remix 373,155 (+11,813)
71(+4) PinkPantheress - Pain 354,336 (+9,113)
74(-2) Megan Thee Stallion - Thot Shit 352,046 (-8,034)
77(+6) Meek Mill - Blue Notes 2 339,043 (+13,501)
78(+6) Olivia Rodrigo - brutal 338,811 (+13,451)
80(-1) Trippie Redd - Miss the Rage 334,883 (+1,408)
81(-4) Aventura, Bad Bunny - Volví 333,761 (-6,190)
84(+2) Giveon - Heartbreak Anniversary 328,224 (+12,859)
85(+9) A-Wall - Loverboy 325,614 (+21,780)
87(+3) Doja Cat, The Weeknd - You Right 318,306 (+7,901)
90(+2) Trippie Redd - Rich MF 311,340 (+5,787)
91(+6) Post Malone - Motley Crew 309,291 (+15,099)
93(=) Trippie Redd - Matt Hardy 999 305,522 (+1,425)

101(+18) Jordan Davis, Luke Bryan - Buy Dirt 291,856 (+29,236)
105(+5) Marshmello - Leave Before You Love Me 285,674 (+13,673)
106(-5) Sueco - Paralyzed 285,559 (-2,079)
110(-1) Yot Club - YKWIM? 278,606 (+6,599)
115(+9) Lil Tecca - REPEAT IT 269,186 (+10,255)
120(+11) Clinton Kane - I GUESS I'M IN LOVE 263,916 (+15,406)
123(-5) Blueface, Og Bobby Billions - Outside (Better Days) 262,494 (-201)
127(-1) Måneskin - I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE 261,084 (+4,188)
133(+3) PinkPantheress - Just for me 251,278 (+8,226)
152(+1) Roddy Ricch - Late At Night 232,154 (+3,868)
161(-20) Halsey - I am not a woman, I'm a god 229,237 (-8,522)
169(+3) Shawn Mendes - Summer of Love 223,252 (+7,055)
172(+5) Skrillex - Don't Go 222,658 (+12,071)
175(+11) Blxst, Tyga - Chosen 219,247 (+14,179)
178(-4) The Weeknd - Save Your Tears 218,235 (+4,526)
180(+1) Camila Cabello - Don't Go Yet 216,304 (+9,052)
186(re-entry) Elton John, Dua Lipa - Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) 210,294
187(+1) BTS - Butter 209,619 (+6,621)
189(+5) Tiësto, KAROL G - Don't Be Shy 209,188 (+9,977)
191(re-entry) Ryan Hurd - Chasing After You 208,986
194(re-entry) Elle King, Miranda Lambert - Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home) 207,430

Total Streams for Save Your Tears: 591390

Biggest Gains (50K+): Heat Waves

Certified Lover Boy officially has the biggest album bomb of the year with 180,473,465 streams and counting

[starlord]

[phieaglesfan712]

Sept 7, 2021 10:33:10 GMT -5 starlord said:

lol, this was the worst kept secret. Most of us knew Hurricane was going to be the lead single from Donda for about a month now.

I fully expect Drake to follow suit and make Way 2 Sexy the lead single from CLB.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

kworb's Billboard Radio Songs Estimates 2021/09/07

1(=) Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits 92.03(+0.54) +
2(+1) The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber - STAY 88.31(+1.63)
3(-1) Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 U 87.45(+0.16)
4(=) Doja Cat - Kiss Me More (feat. SZA) 82.96(-0.44)
5(=) Dua Lipa - Levitating (feat. DaBaby) 71.38(-0.93)
6(=) Olivia Rodrigo - deja vu 70.07(-0.39)
7(=) Lil Nas X - MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name) 59.49(-0.08)
8(=) The Weeknd - Save Your Tears 54.91(-0.14)
9(+1) Doja Cat & The Weeknd - You Right 53.84(+0.36)
10(-1) Duncan Laurence - Arcade (feat. FLETCHER) 53.79(+0.14)

11(=) The Weeknd - Take My Breath 48.80(+0.61)

17(=) Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow - INDUSTRY BABY 40.78(+0.75)

25(+2) Dua Lipa - Love Again 34.11(+0.51)

30(+2) Måneskin - Beggin 32.03(+0.93)

74(+5) Walker Hayes - Fancy Like 17.41(+0.87)

-(-) Doja Cat - Need To Know 9.16(+0.53)

-(-) Tainy X Yandel - Deja Vu 7.22(+0.73)

[iamsorare]

Sept 7, 2021 8:22:54 GMT -5 thegreatdivine said:

Sept 7, 2021 8:08:35 GMT -5 iamsorare said:

new releases always having bigger increase on Monday -the start of the week-..so your comment about the older singles don't make sense at all

Usually, older songs have had the chance to become known by the GP, especially if they've gone viral on TikTok or they've gained significantly on radio and hence, they're usually more stable with minimal losses and bigger gains, compared to newer songs throughout the week. I may be wrong but I imagine it takes a little longer than 4 days for new albums to start gaining streams on Spotify.

Scorpion had 2 massive hits prior to it's release and another hit following it's release but it still lost streams on the Monday of it's first tracking week so I don't know how you expected CLB to magically gain streams on a Monday that also happened to be Labor Day, which is a federal holiday.

labor day but almost all the songs gained except drake... excuses!! everyone said that it's impressive that the album debuted with big numbers on Spotify despite that there's no hit,now with the numbers falling the excuse is that the album didn't have a hit before..I'm confused!! So it helps that it didn't have a hit before or not? with so many playlists and promo on streaming platforms the album didn't need a hit to secure longevity..the album is just bad.. the people heard it the first day, didn't like it,they moved on.. simple as that..he deserves to start 'underperforming'...it needs to happen one day.he can't release mediocre material and still doing big numbers...

[Choco]

Not the underperform talk on a record breaking week for streams, even if frontloaded. Let's discuss that if and when the week 2 fall down to earth.

FWIW not having a hit single means longevity is gonna suffer, but Drake was always going to stream well on debut.

[iamsorare]

Sept 7, 2021 13:42:55 GMT -5 Choco said:

Not the underperform talk on a record breaking week for streams, even if frontloaded. Let's discuss that if and when the week 2 fall down to earth.

FWIW not having a hit single means longevity is gonna suffer, but Drake was always going to stream well on debut.

this should change.I hope that someday people will be tired of drake constantly releasing bad music so they won't even check his albums the first day...I don't care about the record that he broke the first day... it's frontloaded.

[strongerq]

Regarding the topic: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/certified-lover-boy-out-streamed-donda-in-just-three-days-1221387/

‘Certified Lover Boy’ Out-Streamed ‘Donda’ in Just Three Days

While Kanye’s latest album was a commercial smash, Drake continues to prove that he’s untouchable on the charts.

In late August, much ado was being made about the potential charts battle brewing between Kanye West and Drake, who had, for years, maintained a relatively benign on-again, off-again beef, but never actually duked it out on the charts. But Donda, Kanye’s 10th studio album, dropped five days before Certified Lover Boy, Drake’s sixth, meaning it had no problems whatsoever taking the Number One spot on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart.

But if they had gone head to head? It wouldn’t have been close.

In just three days, Certified Lover Boy has already out-streamed Donda, according to Alpha Data, the analytics provider that powers the Rolling Stone Charts. From Friday through Sunday alone, Certified Lover Boy saw over 430 million on-demand audio streams in the U.S. By comparison, Donda pulled in just under 423 million in its first eight days on streaming.

Donda was, by all accounts, a commercial smash. Despite having just five days’ worth of activity in its first tracking week, it broke the record for the biggest RS 200 debut of 2021 so far. All of the album’s 27 songs landed on the Top 100 Songs Chart, marking the second most simultaneous entries in the chart’s history. But no one comes close to Drake on the charts. He holds the record for the most weeks atop the Artists 500 chart and is repeatedly the biggest artist of the year. Kanye, meanwhile, tops the Artist 500 Chart for just his second time this week, as he typically comes in somewhere in the low 20s.

For Drake, the only real competition is with himself. Certified Lover Boy has the potential to break the record for the biggest streaming debut in Alpha Data history. After just three days, it already ranks second, behind only Scorpion. Scorpion pulled in just over 725 million streams in its first week.

Stay tuned for the final version of the RS 200 on Monday to see just how big Certified Lover Boy ends up.

P.S. With 3 days, it is the 2nd biggest streaming week.

[lurker2]

Day 1: Drake is doing VERY well

Days 2 & 3: Yeah, Drake's doing very well, but its poor hold shows underpreformance

Day 4: . . . So he WAS doing VERY well

[shaz196]

And Rolling Stones' streaming numbers tend to be less than Billboard's, they have 725 million streams for Scorpion when Billboard had it at 746 million.

[thegreatdivine]

Sept 7, 2021 15:56:42 GMT -5 shaz196 said:

And Rolling Stones' streaming numbers tend to be less than Billboard's, they have 725 million streams for Scorpion when Billboard had it at 746 million.

Don't let iamsorare hear you.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

This is probably not a surprise for any of us:

TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

[shaz196]

With the adjusted HDD projections it looks like CLB is still on pace to surpass 700 million streams.

[iHype.]

Sept 7, 2021 14:57:42 GMT -5 strongerq said:

Regarding the topic: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/certified-lover-boy-out-streamed-donda-in-just-three-days-1221387/

‘Certified Lover Boy’ Out-Streamed ‘Donda’ in Just Three Days

While Kanye’s latest album was a commercial smash, Drake continues to prove that he’s untouchable on the charts.

In late August, much ado was being made about the potential charts battle brewing between Kanye West and Drake, who had, for years, maintained a relatively benign on-again, off-again beef, but never actually duked it out on the charts. But Donda, Kanye’s 10th studio album, dropped five days before Certified Lover Boy, Drake’s sixth, meaning it had no problems whatsoever taking the Number One spot on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart.

But if they had gone head to head? It wouldn’t have been close.

In just three days, Certified Lover Boy has already out-streamed Donda, according to Alpha Data, the analytics provider that powers the Rolling Stone Charts. From Friday through Sunday alone, Certified Lover Boy saw over 430 million on-demand audio streams in the U.S. By comparison, Donda pulled in just under 423 million in its first eight days on streaming.

Donda was, by all accounts, a commercial smash. Despite having just five days’ worth of activity in its first tracking week, it broke the record for the biggest RS 200 debut of 2021 so far. All of the album’s 27 songs landed on the Top 100 Songs Chart, marking the second most simultaneous entries in the chart’s history. But no one comes close to Drake on the charts. He holds the record for the most weeks atop the Artists 500 chart and is repeatedly the biggest artist of the year. Kanye, meanwhile, tops the Artist 500 Chart for just his second time this week, as he typically comes in somewhere in the low 20s.

For Drake, the only real competition is with himself. Certified Lover Boy has the potential to break the record for the biggest streaming debut in Alpha Data history. After just three days, it already ranks second, behind only Scorpion. Scorpion pulled in just over 725 million streams in its first week.

Stay tuned for the final version of the RS 200 on Monday to see just how big Certified Lover Boy ends up.

P.S. With 3 days, it is the 2nd biggest streaming week.

I’m glad they put this out and just effectively ended all the inaccurate discussion towards their first weeks lmao.

Like people saying Donda would’ve outstreamed if they both had a full week with Friday night release. Trying to figure out how 8 days with less streams than 3 days is a close competition.

[iHype.]

It’d be so insane if CLB really snatched the record for album with most top 10 hits WITHOUT even having any pre-singles tacked on.

[chartfreak]

Are BTS taking donations to block Drake at #1?

[iHype.]

Sept 7, 2021 18:10:20 GMT -5 chartfreak said:

Are BTS taking donations to block Drake at #1?

Not Drake making you mad enough to dip into the 401K fund

[𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕖𝕓𝕤]

Sept 7, 2021 17:14:30 GMT -5 Baby Yoda Hot100Fan said:

This is probably not a surprise for any of us:

TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

Im both unsurprised and shook.

TikTok is addictive, but it’s not user-friendly at ALLLL. You watch a funny TikTok and forget to save it? You’ll never see it again. However, it’s influencing pop culture in a huge way, kinda like early YouTube.